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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
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Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.
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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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I like man, but not men.
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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
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